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L. M. FITCH.

FOLDING CHAIR.

No. 367,749. Patented Aug. 2, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAUREN M. FITCH, OF ROME, NE\V YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MOSES M.DAVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

FOLDING CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,749, dated August2, 1887.

Application filed January 14, 1887. Serial No. 324.351. (No model.)

To (LZZ 1071,0172 it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, LAUREN M. FITCH, of Home, in the county of Oneida,in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inFolding Chairs, "of which the following, taken-in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of chairs which have their componentmembers pivoted to each other in such a manner as to allow the chair tobe folded compactly within one uniform plane; and the invention consistsin an improved construction and combination of parts, as hereinaftermore fully described, and specifieallyset forth in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, Figure I is aperspcetive view of my improvedfolding chair in position for use. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same inits folded condition. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on line m :0,Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detached side view of the combined front leg andside rail of the back, and Fig. 5 is a detached plan view of the seat orseat-frame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

Z Z and I) b represent, respectively, the front and rear legs of thechair. \Vhen the chair is in position for use, the front legs, Z Z, areinclined rearward with their upper ends, and the rear legs, I) b, areinclined forward with their upper ends,and are pi\-'otedintermediatetheir lengths to the inner sides of the front legs, Z Z. Z Z representthe two side rails of the back of the chair, each of which side rails Iform in one piece with the subjacent front leg, Z. The inner sides ofthe side rails, Z Z, 1 provide with longitudinal grooves a a, the upperpor t-ion, a, of each of which I make wider than the lower portion, a,and join it therewith by abrupt offsets e in the sides of the grooves.Lengthwise in the upper and wider portions of the grooves a are fittedto slide the ends of a cross-plate, D, constituting an intermediatebacksupport.

S denotes the seat or seat-frame, the front portion of the sides ofwhich I provide with notches c c,terminating with offsets c, and at 'ofthe seat-frame on the back-frame of the chair.

Vhen the chair is in position for use, as represented in Fig. Iof thedrawings, thelugs d (Z rest on the lower ends of the grooves a and thussupport the rear portion of the seat, the frontportion of the same beingsupported on the upper end of the legs 6 b,and the offsets or shouldersc at the end of the notches bearing on the back edges of the upper endof the legs I) b, limits the movement of the said legs so as to preventthe front of the seat from descending below a horizontal position.

In folding the described chair into its most compact condition, the rearportion of the seat S slides upward between the side rails, Z Z, of theback, and in said movement it pushes up with it the cross-plate D, asrepresented in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. The rear legs, I), foldingalong the inner sides of the legs Z Z, brings all the members of thechair within the plane of the combined front legs, Z, and side rails, Z.

Having described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, 1s*

The combination of the front legs, Z, and side rails, Z, of the back ateach side of the chair formed in one piece, and the inner sides of saidside rails having longitudinal grooves a a, the upper portion of each ofwhich is wider than the lower portion and joined therewith by abruptoli'sets e in the sides of the grooves, a cross-plate, D, sliding withits ends in the upper and wider grooves, a, the rear legs, I), inclinedwith their upper ends toward the front and pivoted intermediate theirlengths to the inner sides of the legs Z Z, and the seat-frame S,provided with notches c c, terminating with offsets c c, and pivoted atsaid notched portions to the upper ends of the legs b b, and lugs d 11,projeeting from the sides of the seat-frame and 1 cnse, in the county ofOnondagafln the State sliding in the lower and narrower portions of ofNew York, this 6th day ofJanuary, 1887.

7 l a gggglileoves a,substant1a1l as described and LAUREN M. FITCH [L S]In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed mysezthin the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syra- \Vitnesses:

H. l DENIsoN, O. BENDIXON.

